To whomever downvoted me, I've seen people suggest on this thread or ones in the last 24 hours that: - symmetric encryption is appropriate for sites' storing p

To whomever downvoted me, I've seen people suggest on this thread or ones in the last 24 hours that: - symmetric encryption is appropriate for sites' storing passwords - md5 is okay - site-wide salts are just as secure as user specific salts and more. Some of these were suggested by people that have far, far more karma than me. Some were suggested by people that had had this explained to them in previous threads and then took it upon themselves to mis-convey this information back. I don't have a pony in this race as I use different strong passwords per-site and I don't have user data to worry about. I just cringe everytime I see potential hackers reading this misinformation or hackers potentially with data who don't understand their risk or blindspots. I only mean the best, even if I come off exasperated.